Air Mail

Spy Games As the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks approaches, Israel’s Mossad is making not-so-secret moves to restore its damaged reputation

By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv

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Countryside Kerfuffle

An Embarrassment of Houses New York, Water Mill, St. Tropez, Newport—Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman just can’t stop. Now he’s coming for the English countryside

By Joseph Bullmore

Great Lives

Fade to Black With Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, David Lynch pioneered an avant-garde vision of Americana. And Main Street U.S.A. has never quite been the same

By Steve Garbarino

Landing Gear

A Visible Feast The fridge that lets you see your food before opening the door! Sleep headphones that won’t weigh you down! A Leica you can actually afford! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

Chasing Vermeer

By Harry Seymour

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State of the Artforum In his first sit-down interview since getting fired as the editor of Artforum over an open letter condemning Israel, and as a new editor prepares to take the reins, David Velasco tells his side of the story

By Louis Cheslaw

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All the Queen’s Men

By Joanne Kaufman

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The View from Here Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?

By Errol Morris

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A Life Less Ordinary One Fine Morning stars Léa Seydoux as a woman seeking to balance her everyday obligations with a passionate affair. Its director, Mia Hansen-Løve, tells how the film came to be

By Nicolas Rapold

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Suffering with Style A brief history of the Borsalino—from Al Capone to Indiana Jones, Bogart to Gatsby

By Sam Kashner

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Great Lives

What Rhymes with Tom Lehrer? He retired from musical satire more than 50 years ago, but his passion for musical theater was a lifelong affair

By Corby Kummer

Books

The Geography of Hope

By Pico Iyer

Inspector Gadget

Felicitous Fixtures The best iPhone yet; a litter box that will make you phone home; a “comfort bird” made of rubber; and more

By Jonathan Margolis

The Adventures of Sir Percy On the eve of his 97th birthday, Hilary Knight, the artist behind the Eloise picture books, introduces a new character: Sir Percy, a human-size frog!

illustrations by Hilary Knight

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The Judgment of David Solomon The Goldman Sachs C.E.O.’s friendship with the controversial property developer Mike Meldman raises questions about his commitment to separating business from pleasure

By William D. Cohan

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Little Myth Perfect Despite ghostwriting 12 books, recording a weekly podcast with half a million listeners, and raising two sons, Elise Loehnen—Gwyneth’s former right-hand woman at Goop—felt inadequate and incomplete

By Megan Agnew

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A Frenchman with a Cause

By Osman Can Yerebakan

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The Cult of Leto He has acted in everything from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by nine women

By Elena Clavarino

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Murder in Fairfield County Jennifer Dulos is dead. Her husband and presumed murderer, Fotis Dulos, killed himself, leaving his mistress, Michelle Troconis, to face justice

By Rich Cohen

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Tuscany on the Thames Started as a lunch canteen for the architects upstairs, Ruthie Rogers’s River Cafe has shaped The Way We Eat Now—and launched the careers of countless chefs

By Mark Rozzo

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Field Guide

Weird Science Are the people in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal knowing participants—or guinea pigs in a mad behavioral experiment?

By Errol Morris

Landing Gear

Status Symbols Earbuds that sound money! Send the Canada geese back to Green Acres! The strongest screen protector around! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

Film Classics

Annie Hall Before Annie Hall How Woody Allen and his team turned an unusable first cut into a love story for the ages—and one of the few comedies ever to win the Academy Award for best picture

By Alex Belth

The Push Pin Attitude How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture

By Ash Carter

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